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COVID-19 Coronavirus Update – Sunday/Monday 2/23-2/24

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Welcome to the new “normal”. “Global health lawyer”:



(It was due to begin on March 5th.)

U.S. national and local officials are, predictably, handling the whole situation sub-optimally…

… At a press conference, officials including Mayor Katrina Foley gathered to answer questions about the injunction filed to block the CDC and the U.S. Department of Health from transferring as many as 50 patients who have tested positive for coronavirus from Sacramento to the city’s Fairview Developmental Center….

Federal court papers filed Friday state that the federal government planned to transfer the patients from Travis Air Force Base on Sunday or Monday. Thursday night, Costa Mesa city officials began hearing of the plan to move between 30 and 50 patients to the state-owned land…

The California Health and Human Services Agency released a statement Saturday regarding the possible transfer of coronavirus patients to Costa Mesa.

“The federal quarantine of former Diamond Princess cruise ship passengers at Travis Air Force Base remains a federal operation,” the statement said. “California has been working hard to support this federal effort in a way that ensures the public health and safety of our communities and the passengers themselves.”

According to the statement, the federal government has determined that anyone testing positive for coronavirus cannot stay at Travis Air Force Base, and the Fairview Developmental Center is one of the locations under consideration to quarantine the patients until the infection has cleared.

“If Fairview were chosen, the federal government would be responsible for providing health care – easing the burden on our hospitals during flu season – and for providing robust security to ensure the public safety and public health of the surrounding community,” the statement said…

As of Feb. 21, the CDC had only confirmed 35 cases of coronavirus in the U.S., with California’s confirmed total at 15.


Reuters:

The Trump administration has backed off plans to quarantine patients from the Diamond Princess cruise ship stricken with coronavirus at a federal facility in Alabama, the state’s governor and a U.S. senator said on Sunday…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said on Saturday that it would house American passengers evacuated from the Diamond Princess cruise ship who had tested positive for coronavirus at a former Army base in Anniston, Alabama.

It was unclear where those patients would be quarantined if the plan to house them in Alabama had been scrapped…

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  3. 3.

    opiejeanne

    @The Dangerman:  Bunch of cowards. The people being transferred wouldn’t come into contact with the good people of Alabama nor Costa Mesa, and they have to go somewhere.
    People are being idiots.

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    grandmaBear

    I’m scheduled to go to China (not Hubei) in May with my Chinese class. Not looking too likely at the moment. A classmate was in China in January (not Hubei), said his temp was taken everywhere, but no testing other than that.  I suspect it’s already much more widespread here and in other countries than currently thought, it’s just no one is looking until they get the severest cases,

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Coronavirus: 50 dead in Iranian city of Qom

    A staggering 50 people have died in the Iranian city of Qom from coronavirus this month, Iran’s semiofficial Ilna news agency reported on Monday.

    The new death toll is significantly higher than the latest number of confirmed cases of infections that Iranian officials had reported just a few hours earlier by and which stood at 12 deaths out of 47 cases, according to state TV.

    An official from Qom, Ahmad Amiriabadi Farahani, was quoted by Ilna saying that more than 250 people had been quarantined in the city, which is a popular place of religious study for Shia Muslims from across Iran and other countries.

  7. 7.

    MagdaInBlack

    Im feeling so much safer since HR “panicked” over this  and sent all the shops a case of Purell for protection. Now if we only had sick days…

  9. 9.

    opiejeanne

    @JPL: Staying out of crowds of any type is a good idea, but remember the hoopla in the Catholic Churches over the communion cup because people were suddenly afraid of germs?

  10. 10.

    opiejeanne

    @Chyron HR: That was the sentiment I was searching for, but I was distracted by the idea of abandoned military bases.

     

    Not very Christian of these people who undoubtedly consider themselves to be Christians.

  12. 12.

    OzarkHillbilly

    In my email box this AM from Heirloom Solutions:

    Some Bad News

    The outbreak of the coronavirus is already affecting Chinese seed shipments of all kinds to the U.S. and the rest of the world. All markets and seed shipments are completely shut down. Many ports are closed until further government notice.

    Little known is that China ships around 20 million dollars in seeds at “wholesale” to the U.S.

    Here’s the important part: Of all the vegetable seed imports that come into the U.S. each year… 86% of it comes from China.

    Fact: Big seed companies import a staggering amount of vegetable seeds from China each year.

    This means potential shortages of some vegetable seeds (maybe all). Frankly, not sure how it will all play out. It’s in God’s hands I suppose.

  14. 14.

    Sab

    @grandmaBear: A relative of mine went to China during the SARS outbreak and the swine flu outbreak. She said that the airline froze everyone on the flight over, so they all arrived with hypothermia and thus passed the temperature test so no quarantine.

    Not exactly civic minded.

  18. 18.

    MagdaInBlack

    @snoey:

    Ya, we pointed that out. Probably speaks to how most of our corporate masters will react.

    Dont get sick, and if you do, TFB.

  19. 19.

    marklar

    @opiejeanne:

    “Not very Christian of these people”.

    You are reading the Bible wrong. They’re following Two Corinthians, where Jesus quarantined the Lepers  as far away from his as possible.

  20. 20.

    lee

    According to the news, 11 new cases of coronavirus on China’s mainland, excluding Hubei province.

    Is no one questioning these numbers?

  21. 21.

    Kirk Spencer

    So the question that came to mind overnight was about reinfection or relapse.  As in do we know anything yet?

  22. 22.

    Feathers

    What I have been reading is that there are both respiratory and fecal means of transmission. The focus so far has been entirely on the first. However, the second may last far longer. The study was linked at http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/studies-show-covid-19-virus-likely-has-multiple-infection-routes, but it isn’t opening for me anymore. The quote that I felt compelled to tweet was: “but by day 5, 75% of anal swabs were positive for COVID-19 virual RNA, and only 50% of oral swabs were still positive.” This could lead to really horrible consequences. If people are not willing to use shared restrooms, the economic effects of self quarantining could become much larger. The travel questions on the earlier thread would have very different answers.

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    moops

    @Feathers:   how big is fecal transmission as issue in developed countries with functioning plumbing and waste treatment?  Feces is often pathogen loaded and we wash our hands when using bathrooms.

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